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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A motorcyclist is dead, and a teenage operator has been arrested pursuing a suspected DUI clang extracurricular of Laton, the California Highway Patrol says.
Friday night, astir 9:18 p.m., the CHP says its bureau was notified of a collision successful the country of East Street and Mount Whitney Avenue.
Officers accidental they arrived to find 1 of the progressive parties, a 20-year-old Kerman antheral who had been riding a 2023 Kawasaki Ninja 400 motorcycle, connected the crushed and unresponsive.
The different vehicle, a 2000 Ford F-150, and its 17-year-old operator from Lemoore were inactive astatine the country upon their arrival.
The CHP says the motorcycle rider was traveling westbound connected Mount Whitney Avenue, approaching the intersection, erstwhile the Ford’s operator either failed to halt oregon failed to output astatine the halt motion arsenic helium traveled northbound connected East Street.
That’s when, investigators say, the teen operator entered the intersection and into the way of the Kawasaki and the 2 vehicles collided. The motorcycle rolled implicit and its rider was ejected owed to the unit of the crash.
The motorcycle rider suffered fatal injuries and died astatine the scene.
Officers accidental the operator of the motortruck received mean injuries and was believed to beryllium nether the power of intoxicant astatine the clip of the crash. He was arrested connected suspicion of driving nether the power and was booked into the Fresno County Juvenile Justice Center aft receiving aesculapian treatment.
Investigators inquire anyone who knows thing astir this crash, oregon saw thing starring up to it, to delight telephone their Fresno-area bureau astatine 559-705-2200.
